Žatec. Кapucínský klášter

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It has a new roof under reconstruction. About 3/4 of it has new, not yet painted plaster (it is in scaffolding), the rest of the plaster is slightly damaged. Some of the windows are broken. The interior is not repaired. Between 1676 and 1684, a Capuchin monastery with a church was built near the former Red Gate in the southern suburb of Žatec. The monastery complex consists of the square building of the convent, the Church of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary and the monastery garden. The credit for the establishment of the Capuchin convent with the church goes to the townspeople of Žatec, who asked the Capuchin order to establish a monastery in the early 1770s. As with other monasteries of this order, the construction and operation of the monastery were financed by aristocratic benefactors, here in particular Ludmila Eva Františka Countess Kolowratová and Marie Sidonie Varensbachová.